Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes  name                    address
   1     9   15.2  Bill Marcum             marcumbill@bellsouth.net
   2     8   16.6  Moog                    efcmoog@gmail.com
   3     7   18.0  Ignoramus17662          ignoramus17662@NOSPAM.176
   4     7   13.8  Rahul                   nospam@nospam.invalid
   5     6   15.6  kmwkawrt@yahoo.com      kmwkawrt@yahoo.com
   6     6   15.5  Dances With Crows       danceswithcrows@usa.net
   7     5   19.8  Hactar                  ebenZEROONE@verizon.net
   8     5   14.9  Baron                   baron.nospam@linuxmaniac.
   9     5   11.1  Darren Salt             news@youmustbejoking.demo
  10     5    8.2  Mark Hobley             markhobley@hotpop.donotty
       ---  -----
        63  148.9  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  134 posters
  252 articles
  587.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  7.5% of the posters
 25.0% of the articles
 25.3% of the bytes

Averages:
  1.9 articles / poster
  2.3 kbytes / article
  4.4 kbytes / poster

2 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 2 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
    1.5% of the posters
    0.8% of the articles
    0.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes   subject
 27     65.7   Ubuntu/Debian vulnerability impact?
 15     35.5   Mysterious server lockups with Ubuntu Hardy
 15     23.7   Best Distro?
 11     24.2   force runaway commands to obey Ctrl+C
  9     20.5   Canon PowerShot A470
  7     27.5   abcde or other decent CD ripper
  7     16.4   detecting duplicate pdf files: a word count approach
  7      9.9   day of year converter
  6     13.7   HOW2 extract text-colmns/bloks by sed/awk/etc ?
  6     11.1   ACPI -- why is it such a common source of crashes?

252 articles on 86 subjects
  178 were followups (70.6%)
  54 were crossposts (21.4%)

586.9 kbytes total
  headers:        280.5kb   47.8%
  quoted text:    106.0kb   18.1%
  original text:  182.2kb   31.0%
  signatures:      18.2kb    3.1%

Averages:
  2.9 articles / subject
  2.3 kbytes / article
  6.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day        posts
  Monday      58  *****
  Tuesday     46  ****
  Wednesday   43  ****
  Thursday    30  ***
  Friday      32  ***
  Saturday    15  *
  Sunday      28  **
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts	domain
  55    googlegroups.com            21.8%
  22    giganews.com                 8.7%
  11    motzarella.org               4.4%
   9    lark.localnet                3.6%
   9    90.236                       3.6%
   8    cnntp.org                    3.2%
   6    individual.net               2.4%
   6    hardy.local                  2.4%
   6    dyndns.org                   2.4%
   5    yi.org                       2.0%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader       user
  65 (25.8%)    slrn             21  15.7%
  55 (21.8%)    g2               41  30.6%
  27 (10.7%)    pan              18  13.4%
  17  (6.7%)    thunderbird      11   8.2%
  10  (4.0%)    microsoft         5   3.7%
  10  (4.0%)    knode             6   4.5%
   9  (3.6%)    xnews             2   1.5%
   8  (3.2%)    tin               4   3.0%
   5  (2.0%)    trn               1   0.7%
   5  (2.0%)    gemini            1   0.7%

21 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

Have lots of fun...